V. V. Vorovsky's life and thought with special reference to his literary criticism
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V. V. Vorovsky's life and thought with special reference to his literary criticism
Yazar:
White, Nijole M., author.
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9780438052642
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1 electronic resource (207 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08C.
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V. V. Vorovsky, a contemporary and close collaborator of Lenin, is studied here as a professional revolutionary and litterateur whose contribution to the development of early Russian Marxist literary criticism is comparable in its importance to that of Plekhanov and Lunacharsky, During Vorovsky's life periods of political and literary activity alternated with prison terms and time spent in either punitive or voluntary exile. After the October Revolution he served in various official capacities, mainly in publishing and foreign affairs, the latter leading to his assassination in 1923.As a literary critic Vorovsky was an adherent of the publicistic school pioneered by Belinsky, and social questions dominated all that he wrote. Since he held that art is created by artists who are more or less committed socially and politically, it was logical for him as a critic to attempt to determine which section of society the artist represented and evaluate his work accordingly. Although very often he was content to do just that and no more, there were cases when he went further and analysed the aesthetic virtues of works of literature according to the criterion of khudozhestvennaya pravda (artistic truth), a concept of the internal harmony and coherence of all that comprises a work of art, Vorovsky's popularity with Soviet scholars, however, rests more on his sociological and political evaluations than on his mastery of aesthetic analysis. The sociological approach to literary criticism has, in Vorovsky's case, an additional dimension in that it is mainly focused on the genesis and development of one social group in particular - the Intelligentsia. The critic's treatment of the Intelligentsia sheds some light on the understanding of this phenomenon, revealing that the way in which the Intelligentsia is defined depends on the political affiliations of the given writer. The relation of Vorovsky's critical opinions to the theory of Socialist Realism is less direct than his wide acclaim as a founder of the theory would suggest, since in Gor 'ky's work he had strongly criticised precisely those elements which were to evolve into the main tenet of Socialist Realism - the affirmation of the socialist ideal.
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School code: 0547
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